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To prepare whole mounts, thereby enabling one to study large areas of hydra in a single microscopic field in which spatial relationships are preserved between cells, and also to preserve experimental animals for future microscopic analyses.
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Campbell, R.D. (1983). Whole Mounts for Light Microscopy. In: Lenhoff, H.M. (eds) Hydra: Research Methods. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0596-6_17
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